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A medical question.

I have a genetic illness known as heterozygosity, an illness that seems to mimic MS in that it causes problems with my nerves. In me it caused blindness and deformed feet at birth, epilepsy, partial loss of my fingers, and more recently the partial loss of my thumbs and tear ducts. It's a progressive thing, slow but progressive.Recently Imperial College started to trial putting their patients record online so that patients can access the records like a doctor. That has led to the awesome conclusion of how really good the NHS are.While going through my records i found that i have heterozygosity with strong evidence of cox fibres. I have read the book and worn the tee shirt when it comes to researching heterozygosity and cox fibres but i cannot understand the subject beyond that of a six year old.Does anyone know what heterozygosity and cox fibres are? As Ealingites are brainier that the rest of the UK someone might know the answer

Dennis Bailey ● 2622d3 Comments

Does "Cox" refer to the cox gene?

Paul James ● 2612d

Thank you, and sorry about the late reply. I got carried away watching those videos. The kids stuff was right up my street.Thanks a million.

Dennis Bailey ● 2620d

I had never heard of heterozygosity  When I checked it out, the first problem was that I did not have all the vocabulary in which it was being described!    I am sure you have got much farther with it than I.  As far as I understand it, it is not in itself an illness, but a condition that in some manifestations can cause illnesses or disorders such as those you describe.  (Neurofibromatosis, for instance?)  I have a friend whose degree is in genetics.  He has no detailed medical expertise so he could not comment on the illnesses and disorders that arise from the condition.  I asked him if there was any literature for the layman treating the subject.  He suggested the following: BBC bitesize for GCSE level has a very good introduction to genetics, heredity and definition of Heterozygous. https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/z3g2pv4/revision/1And Khan academy videos are a great source to learn on genetics and other subjects. You can watch and read more about heredity here:https://www.khanacademy.org/science/high-school-biology/hs-classical-genetics/hs-introduction-to-heredity/v/introduction-to-heredity These seem from the titles to be basic introductions but may help you to get up a head of steam.  If you have any specific questions, I could pass them on.

Andrew Farmer ● 2621d